...artifacts«1: I will consider the historical work äs what it most manifestly is - that is to say, a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them. 2 Whites Überlegungen laufen letztlich auf eine völlige Nivellierung der Unterschiede zwischen...

...contribution was the observation that a historical work is a literary object. For White, a historical work is "a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose...interest of explaining what they were by representing them."1 As a literary object, as a verbal structure that models the past, a historical work is therefore...

...is- that is to say, a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose discourse that purports tu be a model, or icon, of past structures and processes in the interest of explaining what they were by represenling them."l92 Es ist nicht entscheidend, ob „Erzählung" für White eine anthropologische...